Court Quote by Adolf Loos

You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.

— Jim Hightower

The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law.

— William K. Black

Our whole system of banks is a violation of every honest principle of banks. There is no honest bank but a bank of deposit.…

— John Adams

The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that…

— Walter Bagehot

Individual bankers are rightly being investigated by the police. I and all colleagues in the chamber hope that if criminality is proven, they will…

— Andrea Leadsom

For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very…

— Lysander Spooner

Countries compete in offering easy working conditions to their banks. In many jurisdictions, you can deposit money anonymously with no questions asked, even if…

— Thomas Pogge

There was a time when criminals were robbing the banks. Now they're running them

— Anonymous

The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.

— Raghuram Rajan

“My bank must stop trying to sell me identity theft protection. You know why I expect you to protect my money? Because you're a…

— Bill Maher

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million…

— John Maynard Keynes